A game of chance with love on the line... London, 1784 Thea Worthington, Duchess of Wynchester divides her time between social engagements and playing her luck against fickle fortune. Yet every gamble is only a bluff-a means to hide from the pain deep within her, and the loss of a babe she never held in her arms. Now Thea's luck is about to run out. Her estranged husband has returned and seeks a reunion... Plagued with guilt over what happened to his wife three years ago, the Duke of Wynchester has kept his distance. The duke is resolved to piece his family back together, especially now that he's discovered his beloved brother-long thought dead-still lives. But Thea's lovely, porcelain facade is on the verge of cracking...spurred on by the duke's brother's secretive, malevolent animosity. With everything riding on her future, Thea plays a daring game of chance for love and her marriage...and this time, the dice are most certainly rigged.
Set against the intrigue, turbulence, and sensuality of seventeenth-century Restoration England, a richly textured historical novel brings to life the story of Sarah Churchill, from her 1673 arrival at the court of Charles II, to her ...
A tale of decadence and excess, great houses and wild parties, love and sexual intrigue, this biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, casts an astonishing new light on the nobility of eighteenth-century England.
Sweet Decadence
Alice Fraser is an innocent young girl from the quiet Scottish countryside whose life is about to take an unimaginable turn.
The incomparable Steel breaks new ground in her latest "New York Times" bestseller as she takes readers to 19th-century England, where a highborn young woman is forced out into the world and begins a journey of survival, sensuality, and ...
In the end, it wasn't Shaftesbury who brought down Danby, but Lady Cleveland. If what happened next had been part of one of Mrs. Gwyn's merry plays, I would have laughed as heartily as anyone, for surely the events were sufficiently ...
John Webster's bloody Jacobean tragedy exposes the decadence of the Italian court. The virtuous Duchess of Malfi, a young widow, secretly marries her steward Antonio, and is subsequently persecuted by...
Enriched by original research and de Courcy’s signature skill, Chanel’s Riviera brings the experiences of both rich and poor, protected and persecuted, to vivid life.
Decadence
But when danger closes in, Randolph won't just be protecting Sophia from an intended killer. He'll have to protect her from himself. Each book in The Furies series is STANDALONE. * LADY VICE * LADY SCANDAL * DUCHESS DECADENCE